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HE LIVES!!!

Great work indeed

Legend 🫡👆

Trees☺️ good to see you

You’re alive!!! I owe you money. Thank you for your work.

That's bc JW know sh!t WE, orthodox have *all* the *right* answers. I am obviously pulling your leg pal 😂 I'm atheist

We got the atheist avengers here!!

They are non-answer answers, answers that never satisfy the whole reason you asked in the first place.

I’ve spent time with Jehovahs Witnesses and I’ve always been able to ask questions they admit they can’t answer. I wasn’t even trying to do that on purpose which is the weird thing. I read a lot so I’ve read about a lot of people and situations that made me wonder how it worked in terms of religion. Take sociopaths for instance: they have no conscience and can’t give or receive love. But since they were born that way what does that mean? Did God create them that way which would mean he creates bad people just to punish them for what they can’t help?

@@reneeschnarr6260 I had a very persistent co worker once who tried to talk to me into joining JW. His main point (I think) was that they don't have fony priests. They have no priests at all. Just the scriptures. (I'm sure there's some form of hierarchy, I've heard some things (not good things) about a governing body called watchtower) but to answer your question, according to the buybull YES. gawd can and does create ppl destined for destruction 😡

I see you, and I appreciate you. Thank you for taking the time to write such kind words.

@@DarkMatter2525 Thank you as well for taking the time to read comments. 👍

@@scriptconkappa This is G*D, .. A few teenage boys messing around a fire and one says, " Don't pizz down my back and say it is raining." The rest laugh and say, " Okay." Then pizz on the guy. Next morning after the pizz/urine boiled down in the cook ware, one sticks his finger in the remains of boiled pizz and says, .. " Why is this stuff now blue ? AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ! get it Bruning Off ME ! " You know how many things naturally blowup when dry and set on fire ? Due to the way physics work, and humans humor about it. There is a Maker,, it really doesn't know itself very well, Result we are created in itself own image. Fun books/subjects to read, .. Development in Stoneage Superstitions, most research were made by WWII researchers of the South East Pacific islanders that were Still in the Stoneage, and then compare them to South America. Follow with Broze Age bible and other writings. Then Rome, .. " Its .. Pagan and witchcraft .. ! " Well unless it is the J and Xtians doing it. Every culture base on Agri cults had the same holidays. Just different names for their saints, angels, lesser gods. For some reason Xtian and US schools don't like that pointed out. In short humans haven't really change that much in the past few thousand years. We are still childlike dumb with little emotional control. The concept of the physics of the multiverse, is something blowing up and burning. Is that why we laugh at the absurd ?

Fanatics on the extreme left and the right are equally convinced their beliefs are absolutely the ONLY right ones!

Check out God's god.

lol I see what you did there

@@DarkMatter2525, yep, judging from what goes on in those halls, that would be pretty close to the mark.

...Progrcon? 🤔

@@rhythmandblues_alibi : ?

​@@rhythmandblues_alibi he meant "congress" is the opposite of progress

Especially if they Gish Gallop. (I'm looking at you, Ben Shapiro! Fun fact, it seems his initials are B. S. Hmmm....)

What's painful is that it takes a lot more, how can i put this, "intellectual stamina" to go through and properly digest the wise man's proof. People nowadays can barely read a book or even a paragraph without giving up out of boredom. Most people are not wanting to learn and understand or may even be incapable of it. It's a lot easier to take a lie at face value, especially if it aligns with people's biases.

That’s what Trump does-he spits lies out at such a rapid pace, that by the time you’ve fact checked the first few, he’s already told fifty more . It’s exhausting.

Nope, "A Conman can confidently tell a hundred lies before the wise man can show proof of one true claim". Proving takes time and energy.

Brandolini's law in a nutshell

One of the reasons why religions became so popular.

​@@OmniversalInsectExactly, they claim to know the unknowable

Knowable: Death is certain. Life is not.

Love the unknown. I am a trained scientist. Bring it on.

@EdwardGatey " We have to be open as scientists. If we think we know the answer before we go and observe, then we're already defeated."

Confidence, con fide, with faith

@@bignoob1790 faith is such a con job. the entire concept is antithetical to truth; yet it is peddled as somehow valiant or glorious to have faith in spite of the lack of evidence. faith held humanity hostage in the dark ages, and continues to harass and harangue us 700 years on.

I just spent the last two days arguing with a middle-aged toddler until he deleted the video to hide his increasingly unhinged statements and my step by step dogwalking of his claims from his audience. Dude asked me to email him to set up a time to video chat but then went soooo off the rails in the comments. It was a hilarious dumpster fire but I feel bad for the guy because I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm a "science bully," whatever that is, and I used to belong to the same exact cult he's in. It was like through a window into a crazy alternate timeline where I never got to go to public school. I was trying to reach the guy with him compassion and just asking and answering direct questions. I definitely don't love him and it probably wouldn't be too difficult to hate the guy as he made some pretty vitriolic personal attacks, but I do care about him and people like that. _How do we reach these kiiiiids?_

Same with presuppositions made by Atheists, agnostics and secular humanists

@@justingary5322 any presuppositions beyond "the universe exists" and "we can learn about it" are unnecessary imo. Presuppositionalists are frustrating but fun to troll with contrary presuppositions lol

once they go presuppositional, that's the point you know they're only trying to reaffirm their base

There is a way to beat presupositionalism, but I've never met an atheist willing to use it, You have to say that there are some things you know with absolute certainty 2 +2 =4 with absolute certainty They will respond how do you know that, then you say I don't know how I know somethings with absolute certainty

Well I'm fckin uncertain about literally everything😅. I don't feel intelligent at all though😢

@@anirudh1833 If you felt certain, that would be ignorant, that is where bliss comes from. I often suffer from uncertainty paralysis, the dummy just forges ahead, no doubts to slow him down.

@@sekovittol3124 I kind of think that's the advantage of the fool. Removes all the necessity of processing information. Leaves it all to god and says "god is the answer to everything" I envy their ignorance many times because I also wish to charge ahead with confidence. Now I understand why people are so desperate to believe convenient lies.

I can handle a lot of uncertainty through God who gives me strength

@@bignoob1790 Well good for you, but some of us did a bit more research, because that is what some of us do in the quest for truth.

it's really even more fundamental than that... we simply respect humans, strangers they may be, but still sentient beings with independent minds and experiences, who deserve truth and honesty.

@@alveolate Animals are also sentient beings with independent minds and experiences, and they deserve kindness and respect.

an argument why I think you're not right about this, if you think there's a god that might judge you for having bamboozled people by speaking for him, in his name, you would have to be a lot more careful... I'd say lots of them just have the confidence no real god will ever come to correct them... like Trump was pretty sure he wouldn't be hit by lightning when he put that bible up...

That's true. Many of them are self-deluded.

@@DarkMatter2525 Everyone is self deluded if that's the case you are no different

Then there are people like Joseph Smith. I have no doubt this guy absolutely did not believe his own BS. Hubbard didn't either, one was a known con man and the other was a sci-fi writer. And considering these are probably the two biggest religious founders of the last couple of centuries, I have to ask... did any of the historical founders of religions believe? Did Muhammad? Did Saint Paul? When we look at the evidence we have of them today, it's easy to say "yes, they believed it", but what evidence will we have of Joseph Smith in 1500/2000 years?

​@@justingary5322 Then kindly demonstrated his delusion for he would have little issue demonstrating that of yours and those of the religious, any day. Which his videos does splendidly infact.

Worse than hope?

Faith can be used in numerous ways. I have faith that my partner loves me. I have faith that they won't run off with somebody else tomorrow. I have no faith in any of the millions of deities postulated over time and geography, with no evidence. I can actively disbelieve in a deity who causes natural disasters that cause death and suffering to tens of thousands, without any discrimination, and yet claims to "love" everyone.

@@rudra62 did you meet your partner online, marry them and have faith that they loved you and is not a con-artist? Sure would be dangerous if you did. Yes, having faith in a charismatic cult leader and going to a koolaid party or attacking your own countries capital is one of the most dangerous things you can do. I would argue you have trust that your partner loves you based on evidence or at least I hope that's the case because yes, faith can be dangerous it that situation too.

@@NWPaul72 hope is fine in my opinion. In situations where there is literally no other option besides hope like maybe you are stranded on the side of a cliff without any way to contact help. Is it better to surrcomd to dispare and give up or keep hope that someone will find you. In that case hope can help you hang on longer and acutely increase your chance for survival. The same with disease as long as you have realistic expectations and prepare for the worst I see no problem with having hope until the end. At least it will be mentally better for you and the people around you.

@@bradleyadams9430 As a matter of fact, I DID meet my partner online. Yeah, it was a couple of decades ago, and it was almost a year between us meeting IRL, with all documents required by the State for marriage as well as other life-activities (driver's license, medical treatment, etc). So, yes, I have evidence for placing this trust, unlike God-believers who have no such evidence, or even cult-followers who while they might have evidence that the cult-leader exists, the actions suggested by that cult tend to have bad outcomes - whether it's a Flavor Aid party, attacking one's own capital, turning one's children over to be "wives" of cult-leader, etc).

In order to assert that you must prove there's some type of existence after death in which we can obtain "The Truth".

it's a bit like one of these appartment timesharing scams, but better, they don't even need to fake anything about the property...

It's a perfect pyramid scheme. With an ordinary pyramid scheme you will buy an actual product, which absent any eternal input will still leave you able to figure out the product is not good and that you will never be able to retrieve the money or time you spent in the pyramid scheme; but you will then know to cut your losses and never look back. With the divine pyramid scheme, you can never inspect the product; so for as long you believe there is a product to begin with, you're simply cooked.

@jitteryjet7525 Sorry but the way you worded it made it seem to me as if you are the Christian or theist. Apologies if that wasn't your intent

@@_Omega_Weapon Thanks. All good. I have deleted my snarky comment.

The truth is a hammer, a lie is a set of lockpicks.

That is not always true tho. If you were to ask someone, why it rains, the scientific explanation will always be extremely more complicated than just saying God does it.

@@farrex0 Saying a god did it is vague. explaining scientific processes is precise.

@@jonleiend1381 Yes, that is why I did not mention precision. I was not objecting to truth being precise, I agree, but that lies were necessarily complicated. Truth often is both precise and complicated.

@@farrex0 precise doesn't mean simple

"He does have freedom of speech," not if where he's using his bullhorn is a permit area and the people he's proselytizing to have the permit and he doesn't.

“Hate the sin, not the sinner.” Let’s reframe that: “Hate the belief, not the believer.” See how they cannot abide disrespect toward their beliefs. Like, we non-believers must all still our tongues and let them be what they are, though they have not the love nor charity to give others the same courtesy.

​@@PillboxBollockslove it. "Hate the hypocrisy, not the hypocrite."

It seems that Christians and other religion salesmen absolutely have to spread what they're selling all over everything that does not concern them. They're much like dogs marking their territory.

@@PillboxBollocks, yes, good point, and the spirit in which they deliver those beliefs with what can only be described as delight in imagining all of us sinners swimming in a lake of fire is very revealing, I would even say "sadistic". I suppose that is the only way they can feel special, and that is a strong clue as to the fact that religions are cults since their leaders of the church encourage them to view themselves as "special" (saved).

Never do business with a theist

Tbf, just never buy something from anyone who says that it's going to be worth x-amount in y-time regardless of the beliefs. That's always gonna be a con. If anyone could guarantee a particular percentage income over a period of time (who isn't directly involved with the federal reserve) then they wouldn't want or need to move that asset.

The kindest way to dismiss those types: "Don't bullshit a bullshitter."

WLC is a straight up monster

All Men of the Book are.

I haven't seen you in a while. Glad to see your comment, and to know you're still around.

That's not true about Christianity. Many past denominations of so called "Christianity "were based on conmen who made failed End Times predictions. Well this is why I'm not an atheist and agnostic anymore since my teenage years. Arrogance isn't competence which I've seen from many people who have religious and theistic beliefs, Atheists, agnostics and secular humanists This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college graduate. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of macro Evolutionary biology whereas I accept micro Evolution like speciation and adaptation but not macro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant

I know. It's almost uncanny, isn't it? It's like the Voice of Fate. And he's always so spot on that you have to believe what he says. And yet, he's the opposite of the BS assertion of phony confidence that he's criticizing. His gift is that he says what we know, deep down, to be true. He's just elucidating what we often just don't have the words for. His channel name "Dark Matter" is perfect.

Hi. Yeah, as if it would be impossible for Sneezus to come back and simply walk on a little water 💦💦💦💦

​@@JohnWaalandAs a kid i could walk on water. Now the winters have become to warm here...

No one has authority over you in matters of the soul or its nonexistence. If pressured by the religious, demand evidence. You might enjoy Dan Maclellan, a biblical scholar. He explains that (and why!) every Christian must negotiate with the text of the Bible to make it fit their identity. He explains away the authority of the Bible by pointing out dogmatic errors by Christian apologists and points out that it was written and translated by different authors for different audiences and that you must negotiate with the text to apply it today. What that tells me is that you can use it as effectively for spiritual guidance as you could Confucius, the I Ching, Tarot cards or any other system of divination. None of his videos have compelled me to faith or turned me from the idea that divinity might be real, but it stopped me thinking that Bible verses were the same as facts.

Mee too 😓

I am Jeffery! I just look slightly different.

@@DarkMatter2525 😊

You're a hell of a lot better looking than Jeffery!! 🤗

That gingerbread man cookie looking guy 😅? Well this is why I'm not an atheist and agnostic anymore since my teenage years. Arrogance isn't competence which I've seen from many people who have religious and theistic beliefs, Atheists, agnostics and secular humanists This has nothing and everything to do with the video but please listen if you want to otherwise leave it alone and ignore it. Hello my name is Justin and I'm a fellow Christian and Apologist but I'm also a college graduate. I'm not a closed minded Theist as I have nothing against Atheists or unbelievers as I speak to them often to understand their reasons for unbelief but we as Christians are convinced of God's Existence due to many real factors). I'm not trying to convert anyone or convince anyone to become Christians as that's The Holy Spirit's job to help people believe but only explain why I believe in Jesus Christ. There's actually evidence of God's Existence in Christianity. First of all there's proof that Jesus of Nazareth existed in history since the writings of Tacitus, Josephus Flavius, Pliny the younger and other historical documents prove that He was living two thousand years ago that even scholars both religious and Atheists agree with historically speaking but not that He's The Divine Son of God because obviously they don't. I'm going to give you historical and archeological evidence for God's Existence as The Scriptures have prophecies that predate the events recorded in them by several millennia including Matthew, Hosea and Zechariah which prophesy accurately of the people of Israel becoming a nation again after over 1900 years of being scattered around the nations since the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 A.D. spoken of by Christ in Matthew 23:29-24:3 and returning to their homeland after The Holocaust with Jerusalem as their capital in 1948 exactly as Jesus The Christ said. The prophets including Daniel spoke of the time where several world empires would arise and fall including the Babylonian kingdom, Medes and Persians, Roman Empire, and Saladin and the Muslims which went in consecutive order for the past few millennia. The people of Israel becoming a nation after The Holocaust in 1948 (ironically the melting point of gold as God compares Israel to gold that's tested in fire in Zechariah 13:8 and Jeremiah 16:15) exactly how Jesus The Christ said would happen since God us everything to come in The Scriptures and not just because people were working towards as Atheists claim which are impossible for any regular man to predict. Just before anyone says Christianity is a white man's religion made to oppress blacks during slavery you obviously aren't aware that the first Christians were Jews in The Middle East and that Christianity just like any religion can be used by evil and corrupt people to oppress others but you forget that the first Abolitionists/Civil Rights activists were Christians who sought to abolish slavery, racism, segregation, injustice and prejudice throughout American history. Jesus The Christ loves you enough not to give you what we all deserve which is God's Wrath by His Own Blood. Charles Darwin didn't originally come up with The Theory of Evolution over 200 years ago as it is mentioned in the writings of Ancient Greeks who believed in Demons that gave knowledge to philosophers. Evolution makes no sense when nothing has evolved after thousands of years of human history and supposedly the first creature came from primordial sludge several millions of years ago funny how they won't believe that God an Eternal Almighty Spirit Being created us from the Earth) which came from a supermassive expansion of matter at high temperature that inexplicably created everything in the known universe that supposedly came from nothing billions of years ago. How did the organs evolve before there were bones, skin, substance and how did any creatures see before eyes evolved? I've studied evolution and abiogenesis in the past and read Darwin's " Origin of The Species" and I'm not convinced of macro Evolutionary biology whereas I accept micro Evolution like speciation and adaptation but not macro Evolution because there's no evidence of it nor clear observable examples of it where living creatures evolve into other kinds of species plus the fact that fossils don't show evidence of evolution and genetic entropy rules out evolution. The question begs how did two genders evolve from a common ancestor with a perfectly hospitable and sustainable environment with breathable oxygen and resources to survive on inexplicably? Atheists have the burden of proof to explain how everything came to be and why our existence is possible without the Existence of God from an godless perspective just as Christians have to provide evidence of God's Existence and the validity of His Word. Evolution requires life to already exist in order to take any effect in living organisms so it doesn't account for the existence of Life and reality. Also evolution is impossible because it goes against The Law of entropy and the second Law of thermodynamics because evolution makes things better whereas nothing continues to get better but decays and turns to absolute destruction in the end. Mark Ridley an Evolutionist said "No evolutionist whether gradualist or punctuationist uses the fossil record as evidence in favor of The Theory of Darwinian Evolution as opposed to special Creation". God's Existence is made perfectly known and observable in the universe as demonstrated in His Handiwork in the intelligently designed manner that Creation was made, human consciences and consciousness historical and archaeological evidence of God's Word being valid history, fulfillment of Bible Prophecies God in His Holiness and Righteousness could give us what we deserve in Hell for our since but He's merciful to give us free will to choose to accept or reject His gift of salvation by grace through faith in His Son Jesus. I don't mean this is any condescending manner but if you'd like to discuss The Scriptures with me or have me listen to your view on anything my instagram account is Savage Christian Kombatant

sorry to read this... I'm an atheist, only recently I added some conscious realisation to the mix... I don't care about why we would be here... it's extremely liberating... as a student, I had a cat that would jump from the ground into my arms, sat the whole night on my lap while I was studying... since I have my own family, we had three cats, first was a norwegian forest cat, grey, beautiful animal, not very friendly, then a colourpoint, blue eyes, very friendly, talkative, we had to have her euthanised last year, she had many health issues... now we still have a cat... totally crazy animal... take care, you do a lot of good when you adopt a cat.

Praying is like wishing, you can do it all you like but it won't make a lick of difference. Instead, face the problems that you try to pray away and focus on actionable solutions; it will make you feel better even if your action fails. Also, some problems there isn't a solution too, everyone and everything dies, and the best you can do is to alter your perspective on it. Instead of focusing on the loss, focus on what you had gained from sharing your life with them. As for personal relations, if the water is toxic, and nothing you add to it can neutralize the poison, then it may be better to leave the pool and find fresher water.

@@marcdc6809 I still have 6 cats, one has breast tumours, and my oldest about 17 female tux cat, her legs are failing, she can't stand, this started today that she couldn't stand. It sucks, but it's life. I do believe in the paranormal though, as I have experience with those things, saw my grandfathers ghost and got many EVP's in the graveyard. It's just this...god of the bible...

@@meh2510 I do believe in the afterlife, I have experienced these things. The physical world, the spirit world. But I can't claim that I can explain how these things work and/or interact.

​@@sekovittol3124 Many claim NDE's as some kind of proof, but it's peculiar how they're always reaffirming of the religious setting the person grew up in. There's no other way to have "experienced" _after_ living. All we see is a brain misfiring as it tries to stay on. Perhaps there is something, but you would not be able to know of it because you're brain can't be there- it's here, in the physical. The arguments against a 'soul', some spirit inside us that can affect the mind and maybe more, are such: there are no ghosts that can interact in any way whatsoever with the physical world (being completely undetectable means it effectively isn't there), and brain injury can drastically change a person's personality and memory. If the soul could resync with the brain, Alzheimer's wouldn't be a thing, nor would Phineas Gage have been a case study. No one should see any ideation of this stuff as valid. I struggled with finding meaning in the face of retrospective deletion at death, until I independently came up with an idea similar to Fredrich Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence. You don't need to be able to experience an _after_ life while still alive to justify anything.

Yep 🎯👍🏻 Confidence is quiet, insecurities are loud. Talking with quiet confidence will always beat yelling with obvious insecurity... The loudest person in the room is the weakest person in the room. A loud voice is just insecurity masked as confidence. Insecure and fragile leaders like to talk and be the center of attention and go on and on for hours. Some even feel threatened when others try to steal the spotlight.

Trump is not a fundamentally confident guy. He's somewhat good at faking it, but he's really a mess of self-loathing and low self-esteem, and lately the cracks are opening in his facade. The panic is beginning to show through. Last time he faced off against Biden he didn't do well. This time I predict he'll do worse.

@@donnievance1942 Oh no doubt about it. He has always been a very insecure man but the fragility of his ego as of late, and his constant need of praise and validation, is at another level. The sad thing is the more fragile and desperate he gets, the more his followers idolize him. But I guess if you’ve been groomed since 2015 to think a certain way, we can’t be surprised.

It’s in all aspects of life…including politics. No better example than the MAGA man.

Confidence isn't always a bad sign. There is arrogant confidence expressed with bravado and bluster. Then there is quiet confidence based on expertise. The knowledgeable and expert are often confident too, but they don't express it the same way as fools. They don't need to prove anything to you short of producing results.

@@donnievance1942 I could be wrong, but I’m confident 😁 he is speaking specifically of the “confidence man” type of confidence.

You two are 🔥🔥🔥

HEY MAN I LOVE YOUR STUFF!

Thanks for considering me! You are new to me, but I've liked the videos of yours that I have seen. I recently watched your response to IP. Much needed.

Vote blue. Don't torture yourself with the idea that you might be wrong about that, at least. You've seen plenty of evidence to know that is right.

Act on policies, not people. Work towards the changes you want to see and let the chips fall where they may. It's okay to be wrong and make mistakes as long as you learn from them and clean up your messes. Pro tip: if what you're working on hurts innocent people, stop. No one with less power than you is causing your problems. Find the root cause, it's usually greed by those who have plenty. Trust your instincts over strangers, you're wiser than you think.

Mysteries of the Unexplained. I share your skepticism of religion, but I'm also pretty sure I've witnessed evidence of the divine. I think there's more to life than what we can perceive or measure and I don't think any power structure serves whatever that might be. There are religious practices that can propel you towards a kind of ecstasy and perhaps put you in contact with that realm of being, but that might also be synaptic misfire. One thing I do have faith in: one day I'll find out, either way.

@@NWPaul72 The only thing that makes sense as far as what to believe in is deism, agnosticism, or agnostic atheism.

That's the right instinct. Arrogant confidence is an almost infallible sign of ignorance.

Arrogance isn't confidence

@@justingary5322 But it is often used as a supplement for confidence.

there is also a gross lack of curiosity in the fools and fanatics. an almost willful ignorance and a not wanting or caring to know about truth and reality. They choose their state of ignorance. maybe they realize that by increasing their knowledge and understanding, they subseqently reduce their confidence, which is bad for their business of conning people.

Gaining knowledge also imparts with it responsibility (growth). Much easier to believe somebody else will do the work, even as everything fails surrounding them.

@@abdul8685 You are almost reiterating in a nutshell what the German pastor, philosopher, and resistor against the Nazis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, wrote before he was hanged by the Gestapo. Bonhoeffer said that 90% of stupidity was self-chosen and a moral evil, not an organic brain problem. A lack of curiosity is one of its most salient features. The willfully stupid do not want to learn how wrong they are, so they choose not to learn at all. You might enjoy looking Bonhoeffer up. Your comment goes hand-in-hand with his writings.

And his introduction sounded a bit like it too

People that let trump live rent free in their heads?

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv Yeah, but he's the most boisterous, arrogant, unhinged of them all, and he's running for president for a third time. That makes the difference, I say.

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv What about Bernie Sanders?

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv no. I feel trump has gone above and beyond to be the poster child for american corruption.

CONFIDENCE MAN!!

Oy! Are you bezzie mates wiv Darren Gee?

@@whitemountainapache3297 Are you best mates with a nematode? Sounds like it.

In the market of Gods, the trick is choosing the right one and avoiding eternal damnation. So my question is always, "why would you choose to worship _that_ ?" I'm 52 and still can't find one that suits me.

@@NWPaul72 People of sound mind and character do not require a master.

joke would be on Darwin, because he was right... mind you that he wasn't the only one, there was also Alfred Russel Wallace.

​@@marcdc6809 It seems you missed the point. Darwin's so-called "death bed conversion" is just a rumor.

@@FoursWithin it sounds a bit too good to be true indeed, it seems the Exodus is also a made up story, so that would make a lot of sense...

@@FoursWithin Not even a rumor. It's a fabrication. The only testimony for it was some religious woman who worked for the family.

@@donnievance1942 You are correct. And fabrication is synonymous with rumor.

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Thumb cramp! Lol

So fast you left a comment. Yeah yeah. Complete mistake I see your a jedi master in the art of gaslighting. Giggles

Killing gods in a different way

There is a book called Loneliness and Solitude and it should be required reading. This is an opportunity to know thy self.

It's only lonely because people are fucking crazy. DNI.

I'm pretty certain that miracles occur, divinity is real and that our (souls/minds/consciousness) is tied to our bodies like a signal to an antenna. We are limited in what we can perceive or experience by our physical forms, why not also in our understanding? I think we are explorers of this universe and are also its sensory organs. The universe created consciousness in order to observe itself and we are either part of it or separate from it while alive. What happens next is unobservable to us, but unlikely to feature _anything_ eternal. Time might tell.

Yeah, well. Now we live in a complex environment. So, our methods need to adjust.

​@@donnievance1942 Of course! But I was just trying to explain the reason we've invented the sport of _jumping to conclusions_ in the first place. Methods matter when you care about the truth. Many simply do not care, so focusing on that is not effective.

The point is to make use of your finite existence by achieving goals you set for yourself and to help others achieve their goals, without running other people's goals. Life is precious because it is temporary, because it is rare like a gem. If there would be infinite gems, their value would go down. Not even "precious" metals are precious compared to the vast amount of them in the universe, but they are to us when scaled down. You essentially have to realize the little things matter, nature builds things starting from one atom at a time. People make structures, one brick at a time. We all Start going to the gym, at some point of time and but by bit improve. My point being, everything will eventually end meaning that the current and near future are what really matter. We also naturally scale expectations for out goals, i.e even strongman haven't been able to lift a ton. A ant can't lift a human yet it still fulfills it's goals

May as well ask , What's the point of asking questions?? Humans are the only creatures confused by rhetoric .

That's for you to answer.

We can do things to find meaning, but we don’t need to find meaning to do things.

My favorite answer to this is: _"Just because the party will end eventually, doesn't mean that it's not worth attending."_

In religion probably but not always. For example I believe that time inside a black hole is imaginary. I believe this based on Einstein's equations for relativity. However, it is currently untestable so I do not know for certain and cannot know if imaginary time (meaning the square root of -1) even exists. However based on what I do know and can reason I do believe this and believe that it applies to space inside a black hole. And somewhat outside of Einstein I believe that all of relativity is a phase transition from real time to imaginary time. This is not directly predicted by Einstein but is a belief I hold albeit it a scientific belief (although science would more call that a hypothesis but hypothesis is just a fancy way of saying belief). So, belief can be based on reason and knowledge.

Not so. A Belief is something that you hold to be true without evidence and against evidence to the contrary. You have a reason to think the stuff about relativity is truth, ​@@edwardrhoads7283, and that's the evidence that supports it. When it comes to claims in the Bible or other religions, what's testable has been proven false and what isn't testable can be demonstrated or reasoned to be bullshit.

@@edwardrhoads7283 Hypotheses are not necessarily beliefs. They are explanatory ideas that one hopes to test.

I think he did years ago

The Abrahamic god is logically impossible IF it's defined as both space-time independent and the creator of it.

@@_Omega_Weapon That's not the only thing that makes the Abrahamic God impossible. Just look at the clashing, logically incomprehensible, unreasonable scripture. Also take into account that what IS testable (Prayer for example) literally NEVER works. And in cases where people say it DID work, there was something alongside it also working. Like praying and going to the doctor. Whenever it's by itself, it's like it magically stops functioning.

I think the sheep should be reminded that they have more to fear and resent from the Shepard than the wolf.

True, but too many people that exemplify it think that they don't.

Except for stupid people

actually the vast majority of ppl have never even heard of the DKE; at least over 75% of Americans. Ive taken a survey. This shit aint like thermodynamics or = like atomic and germ theories. it is far more obscure of a scientifically understood and documented phenomena of human behavior. I doubt you would see it in psych 101 or even 102. Its also a farely recent theory that is only a few decades old, so there hasnt been enough time for it to have penetrated pop culture. Outside the Atheist/skeptic/science/geek communites, you would be hard pressed to find a random person on the street that knows about it…. Just saying

They "know" it - Biblically.

He loves you so much that he'll do nothing but tell you about Jesus and pray for you.

"I love you so much I've decided to dedicate my life to conning you all into believing in my favorite fantasy."